Publications

Book

The Theory of Extensive Form Games, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Klaus Ritzberger, Springer Series in Game Theory (Official Series of the Game Theory Society), 2016. Springer Link
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Forthcoming

Improving Risky-Choice Predictions Using Response Times, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Michele Garagnani, Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics, forthcoming. Author-Generated Accepted Version

2023

Part-Time Bayesians: Incentives and Behavioral Heterogeneity in Belief Updating, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Michele Garagnani, Management Science, 69 (9), September 2023, 5523-5542. Journal Link
Does Choice Change Preferences? An Incentivized Test of the Mere Choice Effect, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Georg D. Granic, Experimental Economics, 26, July 2023, 499-521. SharedIt Link
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An Axiomatic Characterization of Bayesian Updating, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Maximilian Mihm, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 104, January 2023, 102799. Journal Link

2022

Ethical Allocation of Scarce Vaccine Doses: The Priority-Equality Protocol, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Jaume García-Segarra, and Miguel Ginés-Vilar, Frontiers in Public Health, 10, December 2022, 986776. Journal Link
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Voting Under Time Pressure, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Michele Garagnani, Judgment and Decision Making, 17(5), September 2022, pp. 1072-1093. Journal Link
Excess Payoff Dynamics in Games, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Josef Hofbauer, Journal of Economic Theory, 204, September 2022, 105464. Journal Link
The Gradual Nature of Economic Errors, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Michele Garagnani, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 200, August 2022, pp. 55-66. Journal Link
Strength of Preference and Decisions Under Risk, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Michele Garagnani, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 64 (3), June 2022, pp. 309-329. SharedIt Link
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Attention and Salience in Preference Reversals, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Alexander Ritschel, Experimental Economics, 25, June 2022, pp. 1024-1051. SharedIt Link
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The Reinforcement Paradox: Monetary Incentives and Bayesian Updating, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Johannes Buckenmaier, Michele Garagnani, and Alexander Ritschel, Economics Letters, 211, February 2022, 110200. Journal Link
Do Traders Learn to Select Efficient Market Institutions?, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Johannes Buckenmaier, and Georg Kirchsteiger, Experimental Economics, 25, February 2022, pp. 203-228. SharedIt Link
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The Trembling Chairman Paradox, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Games and Economic Behavior, 131, January 2022, pp. 51-56. Journal Link
Generous with Individuals and Selfish to the Masses, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Jaume García-Segarra, and Alexander Ritschel, Nature Human Behaviour, 6, January 2022, pp. 88-96. SharedIt Link Journal Link
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2021

Multi-Lateral Strategic Bargaining Without Stationarity, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Klaus Ritzberger, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 97, December 2021, 102540. Journal Link
The Role of Payoff Valence on Voting: Egalitarian for Gains and Selfish for Losses, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Michele Garagnani, and Jaume Garcia-Segarra, Frontiers in Psychology, 12, November 2021, 737225. Journal Link
Effortful Bayesian Updating: A Pupil-Dilation Study, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Alexander Jaudas, and Alexander Ritschel, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 63 (1), August 2021, pp. 81-102. SharedIt Link
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Time Will Tell: Recovering Preferences when Choices are Noisy, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Ernst Fehr and Nick Netzer, Journal of Political Economy, 129 (6), June 2021, pp. 1828-1877. Journal Link.
Cognitive Sophistication and Deliberation Times, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Johannes Buckenmaier, Experimental Economics, 24, June 2021, pp. 558-592. SharedIt Link
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When Are Efficient Conventions Selected in Networks?, Carlos Alos-Ferrer, Johannes Buckenmaier, and Federica Farolfi, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 124, March 2021, 104074. Journal Link
Imitation, Network Size, and Efficiency, Carlos Alos-Ferrer, Johannes Buckenmaier, and Federica Farolfi, Network Science, 9 (1), March 2021, pp. 123-133. Journal Link
Multiple Behavioral Rules in Cournot Oligopolies, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Alexander Ritschel, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 183, March 2021, pp. 250-267. Journal Link
Conditional valuation for combinations of goods in primates, Hui-Kuan Chung, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, and Philippe Tobler, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376 (1819), March 2021, 20190669. Journal Link
Attentional Shifts and Preference Reversals: An Eye-tracking Study, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Alexander Jaudas, and Alexander Ritschel, Judgment and Decision Making, 16 (1), Jan 2021, pp. 57-93. Journal Link
Choice Consistency and Strength of Preference, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Michele Garagnani, Economics Letters, 198, Jan 2021, 109672. Journal Link

2020

(Editorial) At the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Economic Psychology: Standards, practices, and challenges, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Eldad Yechiam, Journal of Economic Psychology, 80, October 2020, 102309. Journal Link
The Cognitive Foundations of Cooperation, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Michele Garagnani, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 175, July 2020, pp. 71-85. Journal Link
Reduced Normal Forms are not Extensive Forms, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Klaus Ritzberger, Economic Theory Bulletin, 8(2), May 2020, pp. 281-288.

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2019

Habituation Does Not Rescue Depletion: Two Tests of the Ego-Depletion Effect, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Alexander Ritschel, Jaume García-Segarra and Anja Achtziger, Journal of Economic Psychology, Volume 75, Part A, December 2019, 102122. Journal Link
Strongly Sincere Best Responses under Approval Voting and Arbitrary Preferences, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Johannes Buckenmaier, Games and Economic Behavior, 117, September 2019, pp. 388-401. Journal Link
Trust Games and Beyond, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Federica Farolfi, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, September 2019, Article 887, pp. 1-16. Journal Link
True to Which Self? Lay Rationalism and Decision Satisfaction in Self-Control Conflicts, Michail D. Kokkoris, Erik Hoelzl and Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117(2), Aug 2019, pp. 417-447.

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2018

Anchoring on Utopia: A Generalization of the Kalai-Smorodinsky Solution, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Jaume Garcia-Segarra and Miguel Ginés-Vilar, Economic Theory Bulletin, 6(2), October 2018, pp. 141-155. SharedIt Link
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The Reinforcement Heuristic in Normal Form Games, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Alexander Ritschel, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 152, August 2018, pp. 224-234. Journal Link
Social Preferences and Self-Control, Anja Achtziger, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Alexander K. Wagner, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 74, June 2018, pp. 161-166. Journal Link
A Dual-Process Diffusion Model, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31 (2), April 2018, pp. 203-218. Journal Link
A Review Essay on Social Neuroscience: Can Research on the Social Brain and Economics Inform Each Other?, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Journal of Economic Literature, 56 (1), March 2018, pp. 234-264.
  • Covered as Research Highlight by the American Economic Association Link
  • Italian translation published in: Sistemi Intelligenti, XXX (2), August 2018, pp. 229-274. Link
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Performance Curiosity, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Jaume García-Segarra and Alexander Ritschel, Journal of Economic Psychology, 64, February 2018, pp. 1-17. Journal Link

2017

Cournot vs. Walras: A Reappraisal through Simulations, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Johannes Buckenmaier, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 82, September 2017, pp. 257-272. Journal Link
Super-Additivity and Concavity are Equivalent for Pareto Optimal n-Agent Bargaining Solutions, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Jaume Garcia-Segarra and Miguel Ginés-Vilar, Economics Letters, 157, August 2017, pp. 50-sh;52. Journal Link
Framing Effects and the Reinforcement Heuristic, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Sabine Hügelschäfer and Jiahui Li, Economics Letters, 156, July 2017, pp. 32-35. Journal Link
Does Backwards Induction Imply Subgame Perfection?, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Klaus Ritzberger, Games and Economic Behavior, 103, May 2017, pp. 19-29. Journal Link
Characterizations of Perfect Recall, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Klaus Ritzberger, International Journal of Game Theory, 46(2), May 2017, pp. 311-326. SharedIt Link
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Market Selection by Boundedly-Rational Traders under Constant Returns to Scale, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Georg Kirchsteiger, Economics Letters, 153, April 2017, pp. 51-53. Journal Link
On the Convergence of Logit-Response to (Strict) Nash Equilibria, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Nick Netzer, Economic Theory Bulletin, 5(1), April 2017, pp. 1-8. SharedIt Link
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Trader Matching and the Selection of Market Institutions, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Johannes Buckenmaier, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 69, February 2017, pp. 118-127 Journal Link
Characterizing Existence of Equilibrium for Large Extensive Form Games: A Necessity Result, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Klaus Ritzberger, Economic Theory, 63 (2), February 2017, pp. 407-430. SharedIt Link
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2016

Faith in Intuition and Cognitive Reflection, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Sabine Hügelschäfer, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 64, October 2016, pp. 61-70. Journal Link
Cognitive Reflection, Decision Biases, and Response Times, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Michele Garagnani, and Sabine Hügelschäfer, Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 1402, September 2016, pp. 1-21. Journal Link
The Impact of Self-Control Depletion on Social Preferences in the Ultimatum Game, Anja Achtziger, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, and Alexander K. Wagner, Journal of Economic Psychology, 53, April 2016, pp. 1-16. Journal Link
Preference Reversals: Time and Again, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Ðura-Georg Granić, Johannes , and Alexander K. Wagner, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 52 (1), February 2016, pp. 65-97. SharedIt Link
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Inertia and Decision Making, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Sabine Hügelschäfer, and Jiahui Li, Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 169, February 2016, pp. 1-9. Journal Link
Equilibrium Existence for Large Perfect Information Games, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Klaus Ritzberger, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 62, January 2016, pp. 5-18. Journal Link

2015

Self-Control Depletion and Decision Making, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Sabine Hügelschäfer, and Jiahui Li, Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 8(4), December 2015, pp. 203-216. APA Link
Repeated Games in Continuous Time as Extensive Form Games, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Johannes Kern, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 61, December 2015, pp. 34-57. Journal Link
Higher Incentives Can Impair Performance: Neural Evidence on Reinforcement and Rationality, Anja Achtziger, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Sabine Hügelschäfer, and Marco Steinhauser, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10 (11), November 2015, pp. 1477-1483. Journal Link
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Learning and Market Clearing: Theory and Experiments, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Georg Kirchsteiger, Economic Theory, 60 (2), October 2015, pp. 203-241. SharedIt Link
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On the Characterization of Preference Continuity by Chains of Sets, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Klaus Ritzberger, Economic Theory Bulletin, 3 (2), October 2015, pp. 115-128. SharedIt Link
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Political Space Representations with Approval Data, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Ðura-Georg Granić, Electoral Studies, 39, September 2015, pp. 56-71. Journal Link
Money, Depletion, and Prosociality in the Dictator Game, Anja Achtziger, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, and Alexander K. Wagner, Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 8(1), March 2015, pp. 1-14.

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Robust Stochastic Stability, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Nick Netzer, Economic Theory, 58 (1), January 2015, pp. 31-57. SharedIt Link
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Choice-Induced Preference Change and the Free-Choice Paradigm: A Clarification, C arlos Alós-Ferrer and Fei Shi, Judgment and Decision Making, 10(1), January 2015, pp. 34-49. Journal Link

2014

Imitation and the Role of Information in Overcoming Coordination Failures, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Simon Weidenholzer, Games and Economic Behavior, 87, September 2014, pp. 397-411. Journal Link
Fast or Rational? A Response-Times Study of Bayesian Updating, Anja Achtziger and Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Management Science, 60 (4), April 2014, pp. 923-938. Journal Link
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From Dual Processes to Multiple Selves: Implications for Economic Behavior, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Fritz Strack, Journal of Economic Psychology, 41, April 2014, pp. 1-11. Journal Link
Adaptive Preferences and Institutional Stability: Comment, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 170 ( 1), February 2014, pp. 37-42. Journal Link
The Neural Basis of Belief Updating and Rational Decision Making, Anja Achtziger, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Sabine Hügelschäfer, and Marco Steinhauser, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9 (1), January 2014, pp. 55-62. Journal Link

2013

Hidden Symmetries and Focal Points, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Christoph Kuzmics, Journal of Economic Theory, 148 (1), January 2013, pp. 226-258. Journal Link
Large Extensive Form Games, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Klaus Ritzberger, Economic Theory, 52 (1), January 2013, pp. 75-102. SharedIt
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2012

Choices and Preferences: Evidence from Implicit Choices and Response Times, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Ðura-Georg Granić, Fei Shi, and Alexander K. Wagner, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48 (6), November 2012, pp. 1336-1342. Journal Link
Job Market Signaling and Employer Learning, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Julien Prat, Journal of Economic Theory, 147 (5), September 2012, pp. 1787-1817. Journal Link
Faith in Intuition and Behavioral Biases, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Sabine Hügelschäfer, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 84 (1), September 2012, pp. 182-192. Journal Link
Two Field Experiments on Approval Voting in Germany, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Ðura-Georg Granić, Social Choice and Welfare, 39 (1), June 2012, pp. 171-205. SharedIt Link
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Imitation with Asymmetric Memory, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Fei Shi, Economic Theory, 49 (1), Jan 2012, pp. 193-215. SharedIt Link
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2011

Comments on ‘Trees and Extensive Forms’, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Johannes Kern, and Klaus Ritzberger, Journal of Economic Theory, 146 (5), Sept 2011, pp. 2165-2168. Journal Link

2010

General Equilibrium and the Emergence of (Non) Market Clearing Trading Institutions, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Georg Kirchsteiger, Economic Theory, 44 (3), Sept 2010, pp. 339-360. SharedIt Link
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Best-response Dynamics in a Birth-Death Model of Evolution in Games, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Ilja Neustadt, International Game Theory Review, June 2010, 12 (2), pp. 197-204. Journal Link
On the Evolution of Market Institutions: The Platform Design Paradox, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Georg Kirchsteiger, and Markus Walzl, Economic Journal, 120 (543), March 2010, pp. 215-243. Journal Link
The Logit-Response Dynamics, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Nick Netzer, Games and Economic Behavior, 68 (2), March 2010, pp. 413-427. Journal Link

2008

Contagion and Efficiency, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Simon Weidenholzer, Journal of Economic Theory, 143 (1), Nov 2008, pp. 251-274. Journal Link
Trees and Extensive Forms, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Klaus Ritzberger, Journal of Economic Theory, 143 (1), Nov 2008, pp. 216-250. Journal Link
Learning, Bounded Memory, and Inertia, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Economics Letters, 101 (2), Nov 2008, pp. 134-136. Journal Link

2007

Partial Bandwagon Effects and Local Interactions, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Simon Weidenholzer, Games and Economic Behavior 61 (2), Nov 2007, pp. 179-197 Journal Link
Nash Equilibria for non-binary choice rules, J.C.R. Alcantud and Carlos Alós-Ferrer, International Journal of Game Theory 35 (3), Feb 2007, pp. 455-464. SharedIt Link
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2006

A Simple Characterization of Approval Voting, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Social Choice and Welfare 27 (3), Dec 2006, pp. 621-625. SharedIt Link
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Imitation, Local Interactions, and Efficiency, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Simon Weidenholzer, Economics Letters 93 (2), Nov 2006, pp. 163-168. Journal Link
The Discretization of Continuum Strategy Spaces, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, International Game Theory Review 8 (3), Sept 2006, pp. 499-514. Journal Link

2005

The Evolutionary Stability of Perfectly Competitive Behavior, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Ana B. Ania, Economic Theory 26 (3), Oct 2005, pp. 497-516. SharedIt Link
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Trees and Decisions, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Klaus Ritzberger, Economic Theory 25 (4), June 2005, pp. 763-798. SharedIt Link
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The Asset Market Game, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Ana B. Ania, Journal of Mathematical Economics 41 (1-2), Feb 2005, pp. 67-90. Journal Link
Some Remarks on Pseudotrees, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Klaus Ritzberger, Order 22 (1), Feb 2005, pp. 1-9. SharedIt Link
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2004 and earlier

Cournot vs. Walras in Dynamic Oligopolies with Memory, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, International Journal of Industrial Organization 22 (2), Feb 2004, pp. 193-217. Journal Link
Finite Population Dynamics and Mixed Equilibria, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, International Game Theory Review 5 (3), Sept 2003, pp. 263-290. Journal Link
A Comment on ‘The Selection of Preferences through Imitation’, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Manfred Nermuth, Economics Bulletin 3 (7), 2003, pp. 1-9. Journal Link
Random Matching of Several Infinite Populations, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Annals of Operations Research 114, Aug 2002, pp. 33-38. SharedIt Link
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Local Equilibria in Economic Games, Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Ana B. Ania, Economics Letters 70 (2), Feb 2001, pp. 165-173. Journal Link
An Evolutionary Model of Bertrand Oligopoly, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Ana B. Ania and K.R. Schenk-Hoppé, Games and Economic Behavior 33 (1), Oct 2000, pp. 1-19. Journal Link
Dynamical Systems with a Continuum of Randomly Matched Agents, Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Journal of Economic Theory 86 (2), June 1999, pp. 245-267. Journal Link

Other publications (book chapters, other-language articles, etc.)

“Behavioral Rules.” Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Johannes Buckenmaier. In: C. Monica Capra, Rachel Croson, Mary Rigdon and Tanya Rosenblat (Eds.), “Handbook of Experimental Game Theory,” Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
“Intervista a Carlos Alós-Ferrer,” interview by Pietro Terna, Sistemi Intelligenti, 3, December 2019, pp. 633--638.
Entscheiden aus (mikro-)ökonomischer Perspektive, Unterricht Wirtschaft + Politik, 4/2017, pp. 2-7 ("Basisartikel").
“Economic Behavior and the Reflective-Impulsive Duality.” In: Roland Deutsch, Bertram Gawronski, and Wilhelm Hofmann (Eds.), “Reflective and Impulsive Determinants of Human Behavior,” Routledge 2016, pp. 205-222.
Entries “Cognitive Dissonance” and “Spain” in The Sage Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives, November 2016, Paul I. Joseph (ed), Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California.
“Intuition und Rationales Entscheiden - Aktuelle Erkenntnisse zu grundlegenden Prozessen ökonomischer Entscheidungsfindung,” Anja Achtziger and Carlos Alós-Ferrer, SEM Radar, Zeitschrift für Systemdenken und Entscheidungsfindung im Management, 2014/1, pp. 1-10.
Augen auf und Durch, Achtziger, A., and Alós-Ferrer, C., Gastkommentar, Econo 2/2012 (Dezember 2012).
Games: An Interdisciplinary Open-Access Journal, (Editorial), Games 2010, 1, 1-2.
“Approval Voting in Germany: Description of a Field Experiment,” Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Ðura-Georg Granić. In: Laslier, J.F. and Sanver, M.R. (Eds), “Handbook on Approval Voting,” Springer Verlag, 2010, pp. 397-411.
“Imitation and Learning,” Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Karl Schlag. In: Anand, P., Pattanaik, P., Puppe, C. (Eds.), “Handbook of Social and Rational Choice,” Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 271-297.
“Do People Update Beliefs? A Critical Review and Some New Evidence,”, Anja Achtziger and Carlos Alós-Ferrer. In: Franz, W., Güth, W., Ramser, H.-J., Stadler, M. (Eds.), “Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung,” 38. Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Seminar Ottobeuren, Mohr Siebeck 2009.
“Teoría de Juegos e Historia Económica: una simbiosis necesaria,” Información Comercial Española - Revista de Economía, No. 812, Jan 2004, pp. 27-33.
“An Evolutionary Model of Market Structure,” Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Ana B. Ania, and Fernando Vega Redondo. In: van der Laan, G., Herings, P.J.J., Talman, A.J.J. (Eds.), “The Theory of Markets,” North Holland, Amsterdam, 1999.